Bug? [B4X]BBCodeView Url Auto-Underline Oddities

[William Lancee]

I found a way around these, but here they are.

Private Sub B4XPage_Created (Root1 As B4XView)
    Root = Root1
    Root.LoadLayout("1")
    TextEngine.Initialize(Root)
    TextEngine.TagParser.UrlColor = 0x228b22    'breaks auto underline, except for line4 which has same color as Url color
'                        the underline is still there (it can be seen in letters such as gjqp) but is the background color (or transparent).
    BBCodeView1.TextEngine = TextEngine
    
    'Without line6 the auto underline works only for line1 and line5
    'With line6 the auto underline works as expected for all lines
    BBCodeView1.Text = _
$"
line1: this is [url]some phrase[/url] and more
line2: this is [url][b]some link2[/b][/url] and more
line3: this is [url]link3[/url] and more
line4: this is [url][color=#228b22]link4[/color][/url] and more
line5: this is [url]some phrase[/url] and more
line6: [Span MinWidth=0%x] [/Span]
"$
End Sub

 

[Erel]

Took me a while to find it.
You are setting the url color to be transparent. It is a bit confusing as the alpha channel is set to FF internally in some cases but not all of them.

It should be:

TextEngine.TagParser.UrlColor = 0xFF228b22

I will fix it though it is better to explicitly set the alpha level with values outside of the bbcode.

 

[William Lancee]

Thank you, that works. In #1 I also showed another oddity - cryptic I know.

Private Sub B4XPage_Created (Root1 As B4XView)
    Root = Root1
    Root.LoadLayout("1")
    BBCodeView1.TextEngine = TextEngine
    
    'Without line6 the auto underline works only for line1 and line5
    'With line6 the auto underline works as expected for all lines
    BBCodeView1.Text = _
$"
line1: this is [url]some phrase[/url] and more
line2: this is [url][b]some link2[/b][/url] and more
line3: this is [url]link3[/url] and more
line4: this is [url][color=#228b22]link4[/color][/url] and more
line5: this is [url]some phrase[/url] and more
line6: [Span MinWidth=0%x] [/Span]
"$
End Sub

 

[Erel]

I'm unable to reproduce it. Please upload the project.

 

[William Lancee]

If you remove line6 which shouldn't do much, you'll see it.

 

[Erel]

I know what causes it. Will be fixed.

 

[Erel]

Fixed in v1.90.

[B4X] BCTextEngine / BBCodeView - Text engine + BBCode parser + Rich Text View

Be open minded. This is a cross platform library with several features: - Text drawing engine. - Text layout engine. - BBCode parser. - Two custom views that connect everything: BBCodeView - multiline, scrollable with support for embedded views. BBLabel - lightweight label. - NEW...

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[William Lancee]

Wow, 14hrs and 2 minutes. You have set a new record. ?

 

[Erel]

1. It was a simple fix after I understood what causes it.
2. You are not measuring the time correctly.

I've left my office 2 minutes after writing the first post and arrived on the next day, a few minutes before writing the second post.
We can settle on 15 minutes